Word: archaeologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye. Knowing that Stone-Age Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians...
...Digger Lee, probably stayed for some 2,000 years; then, about 5,000 years ago, they pushed southeastward across Ontario. Rain and snow kept topsoil from forming on the sloping camp site, and many discarded artifacts lay on the ground last summer just as they had for 50 centuries. Archaeologist Lee gathered up every trace of man-chipped stone he could find before he went quietly away. This summer he returned with a group of students to dig deeper...
...steps. Then the stairway ended at a solid wall. Behind it was another wall with a stone box set in it, and in the box were a piece of ceramic work, a big pearl, a collection of shells and several pieces of jade. This religious bric-a-brac encouraged Archaeologist Ruz. It hinted that something of importance to long-dead Mayan priests was hidden in the heart of the pyramid...
...ruined Mayan city of Palenque, State of Chiapas, Mexico, Mexican Archaeologist Alberto Ruz Luhillier had the thrill that all diggers hope for: he was the first to look into a ceremonial chamber that had been closed and forgotten centuries...
...orange, pink, and yellow jackets--are from the bequests of George Lyman Kittredge '82 and George Andrew Reisner '89. Both men were leading scholars in their fields: Kittredge was professor of English at Harvard and an authority on Shakespeare; Reisner was a Harvard professor of Egyptology and an eminent archaeologist...